An inlaid silver vase of slender ovoid form, worked in various metals including silver, gold, green gold, shakudo, shibuichi and copper with the Five Festivals of the year in fan shaped panels on an ishi-arashi ground. Each panel decorated with young pine trees and shuttlecock for shogatsu (the New Year), a doll couple of hinamatsuri (the Girls' Day in March), koinobori (carp streamer) of tango-no-sekku (the Boys’ Festival in May), wishing poem cards on bamboo branches tanabata (the Festival of the Weaverin July) and , chrysanthemums at the Moon Viewing Festival in September. With a wood stand and tomobako.
Signed on each panel Yoshihiko (Suzuki Yoshihiko 1884-1969)
Suzuki Yoshihiko was born in Tokyo in Meiji 17 (1884), and started metalwork under Unno Bisei II, and later under Unno Shomin. He graduated from the Tokyo Fine Art School in Meiji 36 (1903) and died in Showa 44 (1969).
Tomobako inscribed gosekku kabin (vase with the Five Festivals), chogoku Suzuki Yoshihiko (carving by Suzuki Yoshihiko)with seal.
五節句図銀花瓶 銘 美彦(鈴木美彦)